Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin / Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.

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Kids, pigs, and lambkins unsuspecting stray;

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With grim delight he views the sportive band,

Intent on blood, and lifts his murderous hand.

Twangs the bent bow—resounds the fateful dart,

Swift-wing’d, and trembles in a porker’s heart.

Ah, hapless porker! what can now avail[^[146]]

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Thy back’s stiff bristles, or thy curly tail?

Ah! what avail those eyes so small and round,